EN I love a nautical theme and I wear a lot of striped clothes, but I also like anchors (for example on buttons like on this DIY jacket). Even though we don't live near the Sea, I can at least wear some nautical pieces, right?

This is another outfit I wore during our vacation at the Baltic Sea and as you might notice we had snow over the Easter weekend (excuse my hair, we had wind from the sea and my ponytail was blown all over the place). Looking at these pictures is a bit crazy, because this week we had a summery heatwave with almost 30°C in Germany, from full winter, to full summer within 3 weeks.

About my handmade clothes: I made the shirt back in 2017 and the white jacket is a result of my DIY capsule wardrobe.

fit: lose fitted (not as fitted as the technical drawing and the pictures on the Burda website show)

level: mid to advanced

modifications: I made a full bust adjustment and skipped the concealed button placket (I don't like it)

instructions: The instruction has pictures and text, but not everything is explained step by step, so you should have made a shirt before.recommendation: I really want to love this pattern, but I can't. When you look at the pictures on the webside you might suppose the shirt is fitted, but the shoulders are way, way bigger then on the ones on the website. This suprised me, because I know Burda drafts wide shoulders on their patterns, but not THAT big. I used this pattern for my pussy bow shirt, there I narrowed the shoulders. For a shirt pattern I recommend the one I used for my bee printed shirt: Burda style 04/2010 #114.

I hope you had a great weekend and your week is off to a great start tomorrow.

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